Third Party Modules Don't Work Please Help

Bob

Ho hum, I got bored, so…

@zzaidi148 here you go, below is your working code.

As was said above, you needed to remove the // from var config, and the extra config section at the end. I also tidied up the code (putting spaces between modules to make them easier to read), and added some extra commas (because I tend to anyway) . You just need to replace the API keys with the correct ones and the code below will work.

var config = {

	address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 12,
	units: "imperial",

	modules: [
	
		{
			module: "alert",
		},

		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar",
		},

		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left",
		},

		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "US Holidays",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check-o",
						url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics",
					}
				]
			}
		},
		
		{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "lower_third",
		},
		
		{
			module: "currentweather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				location: "Dallas",
				locationID: "4684888",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
				appid: "private",
			}
		},
		
		{
			module: "weatherforecast",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Weather Forecast",
			config: {
				location: "Dallas",
				locationID: "4684888",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
				appid: "private",
			}
		},
		
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "New York Times",
						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
        
        {
            module: 'MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic',
            config: {
                key: 'YOUR_KEY',
                lat: 37.8262306,
                lng: -122.2920096,
                height: '300px',
                width: '300px',
            },
        },

	]
};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

zzaidi148

@Mykle1 yes

zzaidi148

@cowboysdude Very true. Thanks for the encouragement and help!

zzaidi148

@Bob OMG thank you so much. Ok, so I pasted your working code with the api keys and everything worked and it booted up except the google maps traffic module. I’m right now working in landscape mode if that helps. When I started the mirror, it said that there were no helpers found for google maps. don’t know whether I missed something in the install of the module.

zzaidi148

@cowboysdude My module still won’t work. The rest of modules are showing except for the google maps traffic. Any idea?

zzaidi148

I even tried installing a stocks module by following a video of someone making their module and followed it to a tee but still didn’t get the module to work. It’s so frustrating!

zzaidi148

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 *
 * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 *
 * For more information how you can configurate this file
 * See https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror#configuration
 *
 */

var config = {

	address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 12,
	units: "imperial",

	modules: [
	
		{
			module: "alert",
		},

		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar",
		},

		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left",
		},

		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "US Holidays",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check-o",
						url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics",
					}
				]
			}
		},
		
		{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "lower_third",
		},
		
		{
			module: "currentweather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				location: "Dallas",
				locationID: "4684888",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
				appid: "e026fcbb673efea9ee3929a062c137ec",
			}
		},
		
		{
			module: "weatherforecast",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Weather Forecast",
			config: {
				location: "Dallas",
				locationID: "4684888",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
				appid: "e026fcbb673efea9ee3929a062c137ec",
			}
		},
		{
    			module: 'MMM-Stock',
    			position: 'lower_third',
    			config: {
    			companies: ['MSFT', 'GOOG', 'ORCL', 'FB'] 
    			 }
		},
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "New York Times",
						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
        
        	{
            		module: 'MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic',
            		config: {
                	key: 'AIzaSyBYRxkk4P4qB5ob506t1b5UHOBYVYntnfs',
                	lat: 37.8262306,
                	lng: -122.2920096,
                	height: '300px',
                	width: '300px',
                 },
};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

A Former User

@zzaidi148
As I know, all the STOCK modules don’t work, because vendor API is blocked…

zzaidi148

@Sean What about the first problem I had with the Google Maps Traffic Module not loading while the rest of the mirror started up? Is it because of where I placed it in the config file?

A Former User

@zzaidi148
I’m not familiar with that module. So I don’t know exactly.
As I see, there are some syntax errors in your module config.

                {
            		module: 'MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic',
            		config: {
                	   key: 'AIzaSyBYRxkk4P4qB5ob506t1b5UHOBYVYntnfs',
                	   lat: 37.8262306,
                	   lng: -122.2920096,
                	   height: '300px',
                	   width: '300px',
                        } // I think this bracket missed.
                 },
      ] // And this also.

But I’m not sure this is the main reason of your problem.